Sunday, August 29, 2004
Do I Hear Right? A Couple of Recent Whaaas
Did I hear right? I heard of this Newsweek report today about a speech Bush made on 2004 June 17:
NEWSWEEK reports that President Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa, Florida on June 17, stated: "We must always remember that all human beings begin life as a feces. A feces is a living being in the eyes of God, who has endowed that feces with all of the rights and God-given blessings of any other human being."
I knew that Bush had a tendency to substitute one word for another, as Slovakia for Slovenia, for instance. But this should have caused a rip-roaring laughter in the crowd and an almost certain news report. After all, when candidate Bush called a New York Times reporter a Major League sshole, it was blabbed all over the place in the hypermedia. I found out tonight that the report is false. Bush makes many errors in his speech, but this isn't one of them.
And the Olympic Marathon. Did I hear this one right? Lead runner (by three minutes) Vanderlei de Lima got bumped off the run by some crazy dude named Neil Horan. Horan was quickly subdued by fans but Vanderlei lost valuable time and energy on this incident, and two other runners passed him up so he wound up with a bronze medal and a sportsmanlike conduct award. This is an injustice if I ever saw it. As Vanderlei put it: "I'm sure I would have won the gold were it not for this crazy idiot." Since when are idiots allowed to determine Olympic running results? I think Vanderlei should also get the gold medal, and he has every right to sue Greece and the Olympic Committee for failure to provide adequate security. I wish him luck.
NEWSWEEK reports that President Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa, Florida on June 17, stated: "We must always remember that all human beings begin life as a feces. A feces is a living being in the eyes of God, who has endowed that feces with all of the rights and God-given blessings of any other human being."
I knew that Bush had a tendency to substitute one word for another, as Slovakia for Slovenia, for instance. But this should have caused a rip-roaring laughter in the crowd and an almost certain news report. After all, when candidate Bush called a New York Times reporter a Major League sshole, it was blabbed all over the place in the hypermedia. I found out tonight that the report is false. Bush makes many errors in his speech, but this isn't one of them.
And the Olympic Marathon. Did I hear this one right? Lead runner (by three minutes) Vanderlei de Lima got bumped off the run by some crazy dude named Neil Horan. Horan was quickly subdued by fans but Vanderlei lost valuable time and energy on this incident, and two other runners passed him up so he wound up with a bronze medal and a sportsmanlike conduct award. This is an injustice if I ever saw it. As Vanderlei put it: "I'm sure I would have won the gold were it not for this crazy idiot." Since when are idiots allowed to determine Olympic running results? I think Vanderlei should also get the gold medal, and he has every right to sue Greece and the Olympic Committee for failure to provide adequate security. I wish him luck.
